The Hynes Clan "
The Hynes Clan (Clann Eidhin) is
dedicated to all those descended from the ancient O'Heyne (Ó hEidhin)
sept, including Hynes, Hines, Hynds and Hinds around the
world, that we may connect and learn from each other about
our common heritage." - quoted
from the site The Hynes Clan Gathering
2001- the
Clan Report of the meeting this year in IrelandNOTE: This site uses Gaelic/Celtic
fonts. If you are not seeing them on
the rest of the site, you can download and install the Gaelige 1
TrueType font - posted at the HYNES
site.

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HYNES ARMORIALS"
Another coat of armsattributed
to the Hynes, shown in this sketch by James P. Hynes,
are carved in stone both at the remains of Ardrahan
Castle and also at Kilmacduagh. It shows
two lions, as above, with a fortified tower between them, as
on the arms of their kinsmen, the O'Shaughnessys,
on the left (sinister) half, but with a stag, as on the O'Connor
(Corcomroe) arms, on the right
(dexter) half. The
motto with these arms is in Latin: TURRIS
FORTIS NOBIS JESU DEUS (Jesus, Lord, Our
Tower of Strength). The crest is an arm holding a sword, the
same as the Hynes crest above. These arms may represent the
marriage of Edmund O'Heyne of Cahererillan
(son of Owen or Eugene O'Heyne of Lydacan
and Margaret O'Connor) and Joan O'Shaughnessy (daughter of
Edmund O'Shaughnessy of Corcomroe and Mary de Burgo) in the
17th century, uniting four great houses of the region."
- from The Hynes Clan - Coat of ArmsThe Crest, which is the helmet on top of the Shield,
for all GIRD & HYNES armorials, has the " a dexter arm,
armed, embowed, the hand grasping a sword, all proper"
or in other words,
" a right arm, in armor, bent at the elbow, the hand
grasping a sword, all natural colors."Most of the O'HEYNE Armorial
have these same chacteristics, but what I feel is also
significant in the Turris drawing, is the the presence of the
"Roe Buck" - the buck deer. In theBiography of Henry Gird Harris, he mentions that in his grandfather's
Diary - re: Henry Hatton Gird (III), was drawn a Roe Buck,
which was supposedly was part of the Gird ancestral Armorial
or perhpas on the Family Shield. Clearly on the HYNES Shield
in the above TURRIS drawing, we can see the Roe Buck. It is
the ONLY Hynes shield to sport this Roe Buck. If
there is a connection, perhaps the Roe Buck was from the
ancient O'Conner Armorial as mentioned above, or perhaps our
HINDS family is a branch of the ancient Hynes Clan that lived
in the Ardrahan Castle.